2002

Meanwhile, in my new garage, eventually I got bogged down in the tedium of building so many parts and sanding and sanding the daggerboard, especially since I had no idea when or where I would be able to build the hulls. I did get a lot of parts done in the 9 months or so that I was there, but there was no light at the end of the tunnel.  It's debatable whether it's better to build a boat according to the sequence in the plans or "backwards," as I did.  The plans take you through building the floats, then the main hull, then all the parts that you add to the main hull.  If you're renting space, it can be very expensive to have floats sitting around for the several years it might take to complete everything else.  Plus, if space is at a premium, you have to find someplace to store the floats while you complete the hull.  On the other hand, building boat parts for a few years and not having any boat-shaped thing to show for it is a real drag.

In July of 2002, my brother and I embarked on a brief diversion and assembled various parts of the sea kayaks and Foamee, plus a couple of bamboo poles, into the Yakamaran, which sailed once on Half Moon Bay.

My friends bought a house in late 2001, so I moved out of the garage around February of 2002. I packed up the boat parts and tools in storage in the studio and garage, and worked on getting my Coast Guard OUPV license. In September, I moved across the country to Jersey City.